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Finding Fault(s): Geologists Keep Finding More Nearby Earthquake Makers

Shallow, active earthquake faults are being discovered all over Oregon and Washington state. Collectively, these may present a higher risk than the better known offshore Cascadia subduction zone.

There's a line on a map for an active earthquake fault running through the forested…

Geology's Brady Foreman publishes new article in Science Advances
Climate Change, Snowmelt, and Salmon: ²ÝÁñÉçÇø Faculty Probe for Answers on How to Save a Pacific Northwest Icon
Geology's Liz Schermer publishes new article in the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America
Study confirms large earthquakes along Olympic Mountain faults

To gain a better understanding of the age, number, and magnitude of earthquakes on the faults, Elizabeth Schermer at Western Washington University and her colleagues plan additional trenching of fault scarps and coring of swampy areas along some scarps later this year.

The new BSSA study…

Washington’s forgotten volcano before St. Helens

It was almost exactly five years before that infamous peak in southwest Washington rumbled to life when , east of Bellingham in the â€¦

Summer Field Work: Geology seniors take to the road for capstone course
²ÝÁñÉçÇø Receives New $1 Million Grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute
²ÝÁñÉçÇøâ€™s Melissa Rice, Students Attend NASA Workshop for Mars 2020 Mission
On Campus: Western's Experimental Earth Surface Laboratory
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